The Open Championship wraps up on Sunday. Jordan Spieth enters the final round with a three-shot lead at 11-under for the tournament, and he’ll look to hold off Matt Kuchar and the rest of the field at Royal Birkdale in The Open’s 146th playing.
British Open TV schedule 2017: Coverage of Round 4 at Royal Birkdale
The 146th Open comes to a finish.
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It’s Jordan Spieth’s championship to lose
Spieth’s already done so much in his young career that it’s easy to take him for granted. He hasn’t won a major in a shade more than two years, and that somehow feels like a long, surprising drought. If he can hold a three-shot advantage on Sunday, though, he’ll have three major wins and three legs of the career grand slam locked down heading into the PGA Championship. Spieth turns 24 this week.
Spieth and Kuchar are the final group for the second day in a row, and they’re both well clear of each other and of the rest of the field. A three-shot edge entering Sunday is no small thing, even though it could evaporate quickly.
The players tied for third, Austin Connelly and Brooks Koepka, enter the day six shots off Spieth’s pace. It’s a lot to overcome, and for anyone other than Kuchar to upset Spieth will require the young Texan to have a really miserable day.
On Saturday, Spieth carded his second 65 of the tournament. A third would clinch the Claret Jug, because nobody — not even Branden Grace! — is going to shoot 59. Realistically, Spieth can’t lose if he shoots a 2-under 68 or better. Even a 69 or even-par 70 would leave Spieth with a fair shot to come out atop the leaderboard.
In the unlikely event of a tie, The Open would be settled on a four-hole aggregate playoff, which morphs into sudden-death if the players are still knotted. That’d be one of the most dramatic sporting events of the year. But unless Spieth falls into deep trouble at Birkdale, that discussion will be moot.
Sunday’s final round coverage
Television:
4-7 a.m. -- Golf Channel
7 a.m.-2 p.m. -- NBC
Online streams:
4 a.m.-2 p.m. -- Golf Channel broadcast simulcast stream
4-9:30 a.m. -- “First Tee” stream
6:30 a.m.-1 p.m. -- Featured holes stream
The full tee sheet, with all times in Eastern:
Tee times for Sunday at The Open
Time | Player | Player |
|---|---|---|
| 2:55 a.m. | Danny Willett | - |
| 3:05 a.m. | Sung Kang | Aaron Baddeley |
| 3:15 a.m. | Thorbjorn Olesen | Sean O'Hair |
| 3:25 a.m. | Russell Henley | Kevin Kisner |
| 3:35 a.m. | Bernd Wiesberger | Charl Schwartzel |
| 3:45 a.m. | Mike Lorenzo-Vera | Webb Simpson |
| 3:55 a.m. | Kent Bulle | Laurie Canter |
| 4:05 a.m. | Soren Kjeldsen | JB Holmes |
| 4:15 a.m. | Martin Kaymer | Jimmy Walker |
| 4:25 a.m. | Daniel Berger | Zander Schauffele |
| 4:40 a.m. | James Hahn | Joe Dean |
| 4:50 a.m. | Toby Tree | Andy Sullivan |
| 5 a.m. | Lee Westwood | Younghan Song |
| 5:10 a.m. | Justin Rose | Gary Woodland |
| 5:20 a.m. | Yikeun Chang | Adam Scott |
| 5:30 a.m. | Jon Rahm | Andrew Dodt |
| 5:40 a.m. | KT Kim | Peter Uihlein |
| 5:50 a.m. | Alfie Plant | Brandon Stone |
| 6 a.m. | Charley Hoffman | Zach Johnson |
| 6:10 a.m. | Thomas Pieters | Bubba Watson |
| 6:25 a.m. | Ernie Els | Haoton Li |
| 6:35 a.m. | Steve Stricker | Kevin Na |
| 6:45 a.m. | Chris Wood | Thongchai Jaidee |
| 6:55 a.m. | Matthew Southgate | David Drysdale |
| 7:05 a.m. | Marc Leishman | Tommy Fleetwood |
| 7:15 a.m. | Jamie Lovemark | Joost Luiten |
| 7:25 a.m. | Sergio Garcia | Matthew Fitzpatrick |
| 7:35 a.m. | Andrew Johnston | Paul Casey |
| 7:45 a.m. | Tony Finau | Jason Dufner |
| 7:55 a.m. | Jason Day | Scott Hend |
| 8:10 a.m. | Shaun Norris | Richard Bland |
| 8:20 a.m. | Alex Noren | Rickie Fowler |
| 8:30 a.m. | Ian Poulter | Richie Ramsay |
| 8:40 a.m. | Rory McIlroy | Ross Fisher |
| 8:50 a.m. | Rafael Cabrera-Bello | Chan Kim |
| 9 a.m. | Henrik Stenson | Dustin Johnson |
| 9:10 a.m. | Hideki Matsuyama | Branden Grace |
| 9:20 a.m. | Brooks Koepka | Austin Connelly |
| 9:30 a.m. | Matt Kuchar | Jordan Spieth |
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